Border town receives almost one billion forints in EU funding

The municipality of Sarkad in Békés county has won almost one billion forints in EU funding under the Livable Settlements development programme, a statement said on Thursday.

The 960.35 million forints were received from the Operational Programme for Spatial and Urban Development (TOP) Plus, and the money will be used to implement a complex series of improvements in the town of more than nine thousand inhabitants.

The shores of Lake Eden are organised

Improvements are planned in several locations to improve the so-called blue infrastructure (the Lake Eden reservoir) and green infrastructure (renewal of public parks, planting).

In addition, infrastructure investments will be made to improve transport (car parking and bridges, pavements, cycle paths, roads, pedestrian crossings) and mandatory awareness-raising actions will be implemented, they said.

The investments are scheduled to start in the first half of 2026 and to be completed by the end of 2027, subject to a successful public procurement procedure.